Thousands of sexaholics all over the world tuned in to find out how numerous speakers and panelists do just that. One speaker compared it to showing up to the emergency room: everyone is there for help, regardless of culture, age, gender, religion, education, or any other distinction.

Recovery is always a work in progress. Sobriety is a good start, but a relationship with a Higher Power of our own understanding is the foundation for it all.

Ever secretly thought that a Higher Power could love others … but not you? So did one of our speakers! He went back to Step Two to “close the huge gap between the intellectual belief and the belief I had on a feeling level.”

Various panels, including Channel C international panels, were true joys. Members from North America, Europe, Africa, and elsewhere were in the French session. Young SA drew dozens of participants on several continents. In the Hindi session, some had their first experience as event organizers and speakers. In the breakout lounge, one participant said how happy he was to see folks that he had not seen since SIM 2020. One Farsi-speaking member shared that, so far, he has taken 200 sexaholics through the steps!

We stayed until Zoom kicked us out at the 24-hour mark! We sang the Serenity Prayer together, while visualizing holding each other’s hands. Off-key was O-kay, but one of our sisters in Singapore jokingly suggested, “We should all keep our day jobs!”

Dennis in Alaska, our SIM 2021 Planning Committee Chair, gathered ideas from the committee about specific action steps to plan SIM 2022. As before, we plan to incorporate feedback from participant surveys.

On behalf of the entire SIM Committee, Happy 24, and see you next year!